The Barrel: Human rights abuses: How complicit are oil companies?

Earlier this month, Royal Dutch Shell agreed to a $15.5 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit alleging that the company and its Nigerian subsidiary were complicit in human rights abuses against the Ogoni people who were protesting the environmental devastation of its lands from oil development, and the execution of poet and protest leader Ken Saro-Wiwa and other activists in 1995 by the regime...